Drug Data for Clinical Decision Support

Is your Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy’ department looking for a drug database?

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 by David Wilkof

Many universities and institutions are now expressing an interest in a standardized drug database. They are in search of a high quality, dependable database that helps their academic department build a reliable model to determine pharmaceutical outcomes. Lexicomp is often the preferred choice.

Whether the researcher is in need of a drug reference database for clinical decision support, for dosage administration, patient education material, drug classifications (brand or generic), adverse drug events, drug-drug interaction, drug-allergy interaction, more and more academics are coming to Lexicomp to secure their drug database information. Check out this page for more information.

Comments for Is your Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy’ department looking for a drug database?

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Ryan Smith :: David, there are also many Institute on Aging departments that have been created to improve and extend the health of older adults through educational programs that focus on normal aging and age related disease . The research is targeted at the aging process itself in order to prevent or delay the disorders commonly associated with aging – Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, cancer, arthritis, stroke, and many others. These types of projects need an up-to-date drug database to capture basic drug information such as drug names (brand and generic) and therapeutic class but also treatment decisions in areas such as drug interaction checking (drug-drug and drug-food), drug allergy checking, and therapeutic duplication checking.